The Hawk In the Rain

London: Faber and Faber, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Ownership stamp and signature of an important psychoanalyst on front fly, near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with faint offsetting and a short tear on the front panel. A nice copy of the author's first book.

Faber, 1967. 4th print 1st Edition. Hardcover. Collectable - Good Condition/Good. Signed by Author. ~~Signed by Ted Hughes to fly-leaf without dedication~~VG/Good+ 4th print 1967 Faber hardback, unclipped dust-jacket with price of 18s. Some surface stains to front panel of DJ, at top left and lower left with a related lighter stain mark just above… Read more about this item

First edition, first impression. Original blue cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A little spotting to endpapers and toning to spine with a couple of small marks to boards, otherwise very good in the original and unclipped dust jacket with a couple of tears to edges and some chipping to corners, an area of moderate loss to spine head… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. First U.S. Edition, with H-G code. Octavo. 52 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket is rubbed and toned at edges and spine. Some staining to front, 1 inch closed tear along top of… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. Second Printing (copyright page with I-G code) of the poet's first collection, published one month after the first, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, and signed by Hughes on title page. Slim Crown 8vo: x,[2],52pp. Publisher's black coated cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gold; yellow illustrated… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, Incorporated, 1957. Previous owner's neat name and date (1957) on top edge of ffep. Dust jacket shows a little scuffing to top of rear panel. Small, neat bookstore sticker affixed to the bottom of the rear end paper. Overall, a stunning copy of this, the true first edition of the author's first book.… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1960. 2nd impression. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition (2nd impression), with unclipped d/j (good, some bumping and grubbiness); blue clothbound boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp. A little sunning on endpapers. Provenance: signed on ffep by Christopher Fry, the English poet and playwright who died in 2005) -… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 52 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good plus dust jacket. Spine age toned yellow, with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, and showing some shelf wear and soiling and significant foxing. A small closed tear evident to upper edge of jacket front, along with… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1968. Softcover. Fine. First paperback edition. Fine in printed wrappers. Author's first book, first paperback issue, one of 2000 copies (originally published in cloth in 1957).

London: Faber and Faber, 1957. First edition. Hardback. Good. SELLER'S DESCRIPTION - first edition, first printing. Hardback, 64 pages ([ii], 62); publisher's blue cloth titled in yellow on the spine; tri-coloured dust-wrapper. CONDITION - Generally Very Good but: A school library stamp and the remains of a label on

London: Faber & Faber, 1957. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (fair, chipping and bumping); blue clothbound boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp. . 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Ted Hughes' first published book (which won the Galbraith Prize in USA on publication) - a… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber 1957. 8vo. 59 pp. Recently bound in half black morocco over dark blue cloth. Raised bands to spine with maroon leather title & author labels. New endpapers. Hughes' first collection of poems. . Fine. Half Calf. First Edition. 1957.

London: Faber and Faber,, 1957. A superb copy with a great provenance First edition, first impression, of the author's first book, this copy with a nice literary association, from the library of the author V. S. Pritchett, with his signed book label to the front pastedown. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in yellow. With dust jacket and promotional… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Ted Hughes on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with faint lean to binding, dust-soiling to top edge, toning and light offsetting to pages. In a Near Fine dust jacket… Read more about this item

Faber, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. A first edition, first printing published by Faber in 1957. A very good+ book with some spotting to the endpapers and to the page edges (as is common with this title) and a little mottling to the boards. SIGNED (with best wishes from) Ted Hughes to the front endpaper. In a very good+… Read more about this item

Faber & Faber, 1968. Book. Good. paperback. paperback, faint stain to foot of spine and adjoining covers else a good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, 59pp.

Faber & Faber, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1964. 59 pages. Yellow pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1957. First Printing. 59 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in yellow almost fine unclipped dustjacket. First Printing. 59 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed "To Agatha and Steve/ With love/ Ted" Agatha and Stephen Fassett lived at 24 Chestnut Street on Beacon Hill in Boston where Stephen Fassett maintained the Fassett Recording Studio.… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First US edition of the poet's first book. Former owner name to front endpaper, else a clean near fine copy in black cloth in bright near fine price intact dustwrapper. First edition stated.

Faber, 1957. Hardcover. Fine. A fine book without inscriptions. A small ink mark to the top edge and a little light spotting to the page edges. Marbled endpapers. Sumptuously re-bound in full black calf with gilt titling and five raised bands - a superb binding of Hughes first collection